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Producing the outlaw zone : property law and the geographies of relegation Blomley, Nicholas

Abstract

Drawing from ongoing, community-based research in the poorest part of Vancouver, Canada, a neighbourhood long demonized as an ‘outlaw zone’, we suggest that what may appear to be illegal property practices in the area's infamous residential hotels may, in fact, be harder to detach from formal legality than supposed. A space of decades of systematic legal relegation, the outlaw zone is a product of law, not its antithesis.

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Title
Producing the outlaw zone : property law and the geographies of relegation
Creator
Blomley, Nicholas
Publisher
Wiley
Date Issued
2021
Description
Drawing from ongoing, community-based research in the poorest part of Vancouver, Canada, a neighbourhood long demonized as an ‘outlaw zone’, we suggest that what may appear to be illegal property practices in the area's infamous residential hotels may, in fact, be harder to detach from formal legality than supposed. A space of decades of systematic legal relegation, the outlaw zone is a product of law, not its antithesis.
Geographic Location
Downtown-Eastside (Vancouver, B.C.)
Genre
Article; Preprint
Type
Text
Language
eng
Date Available
2023-04-18
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0431109
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/84309
Affiliation
Non UBC
Citation
Blomley, N., The Right to Remain Collective. (2021). Making Property Outlaws: Law and Relegation. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 45(6), p.911-929.
Publisher DOI
10.1111/1468-2427.13031
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Faculty
Rights URI
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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